CONFERENCES: Egg into Cake?

Sweden last week took a long step away
from the dogged isolationism that has kept her out of the 20th
Century's two great wars.

As recently as last September the Swedes were resolutely avoiding any
approach whatever to the joint defense of Scandinavia. Last week,
however, Sweden's Defense Minister, Allan Georg Frederik Vougt, was in
Oslo, Norway's fog-shrouded capital, to discuss with his Danish and
Norwegian opposite numbers the beginnings of military
collaborationstandardization of arms and training. The fact that the
Norwegians and, to a lesser degree, the Danes, looked on Scandinavian
defense as a part of Western European defense made...